Improved manufacture of palm-leaf fabric



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FRANKLIN `PERRIN, OF CAMBRIDGE,

ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND DAVID C. PERRIN, OF BUNBURY, MASSACHUSETTS;

Specification forming part of' Letters Patent No. 317,113@ datedDecember 9, 1862.

To all 107mm/ t may concern:

Be it known that l, FRANKLIN PERRIN, of

Cambridge, in the county of Middlesex and State ot' Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and useful woven fabric or manufacture, which I do herebydeclare to be fully described in the following specification andexhibited by the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a topView, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section of it.

The fabric is composed of a warp ot' spun thread and a weft ot' narrowstrips or bands of palmieaf.

1n carrying out my invention I slit the palmleat' into narrow strips,each being et' about one twentieth ot' an inch wide and ot' auniformwidth from end to end. l arrange the threads of shade ofthe warp inpairs parallel to each other and without twist, those of eaeh pair beingclose together, and with the space of about one-third ot' an inchbetween them and the next adjacent pair on either side. I also arrangeseveral pairs of threads of one shade, s0 that when woven each pair ot'.one warp-except those of the selva ge ed gesmay come equally or aboutso between two pairs of the other warp. The shades ofthe warps arealternately crossed and a strip of the palmleat' introduced into eachdecussation and drawn closely up into the same.

In the drawings, (t (t a exhibit the palm-leaf tilling-strips, while b bb b c c c c denote the pairs of warp-threads of each shade of a set ofwarps.

The arrangement `of the warpthreads in pairs is advantageous both asaffording a better support to the iilling with less liability to breakit by the sharpness of the bend, and, inasmuch as should one ofthethreads become broken the other will keep the filling in its properarrangement with respect tothe warps. A i'ahrie so made is Very usefulin the manufacture of hats, bonnets, bags, and various other articles.The thread used for the warp may be of either cotton, tiaX, or silk.

I claim- The new or improved fabric or manufacture as made with itswarps of spun thread in pairs and its weft of strips ot` palm-leaf,arranged together substantially as described.

FRANKLIN PERRIN.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr.

